SULEIMAN INVESTIGATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, June 6. The Auckland district committee held an inquiry into an allegation that an attempt was made by an outsider to offer a bribe to the jockey P Burgess to pull Suleiman in the Waihou Handicap on the first day of the Te Aroha Jockey Club's Annual Meeting in February. The committee decided that another jockey, who was alleged to have been involved in the matter, was not guilty of any evil intent. lhe second jockey was admonished and advised to communicate with the racing officials immediately if any incident ot the kind occurred again.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 132, 7 June 1939, Page 15
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